Thursday, 6 March 2014

My Dog Chilli 1996-2010

I was on the subway the othe day listening to Karen O and the Kids' Hideaway, a great song from the movie "Where the Wild Things Are". I got to thinking about my dog Chilli. You see "Where the Wild Things Are" is the last movie I saw before Chilli left us to join all the other great gone dogs like Arn and Laika. We name him after Chili Palmer in another movie, "Get Shorty", but I think if Chilli were a person, he would have been the Dalai Lama. He just knew stuff. We got him from Quebec on a summer's day and he pretty much followed us everywhere for 15 years. I wrote a poem for him and it's a funny one, I'm pretty sure he had a sense of humor. Besides, there is only one person I know who can write a "break your heart" kind of poem about their dog that works, and it's not me.Funny how it still pains me after all this time.We have a new dog now. We named him after Ozzy Osbourne. "Nuff said!